You may have a lot of programs running in the background and these programs may be using a lot of system resources. After checking out the article pointed out to you by Ageless, you may want to try msconfig. From the menu on the Start button, choose run and when you get the dialog box, type in msconfig. After msconfig loads, look at the start up tab to see all the programs that are loaded upon booting up. I had Real Player, Quick Time, Office Search, etc and all of these use up resources. I finally had to use msconfig to remove from startup those programs I don't normally use. Some programs have config files that you can adjust to keep them from loading things on boot up.

You might also to run the resource meter program found in System Tools under Accessories. Right now, I'm running on my Win Me computer with about 9% User resources free and 31% GDI resources free. If I were to try to run another program in addition to WCG and IE6, I'd probably get the same error or drag my system down close to 2% resources free.

None of those items running in the background will show up on your systray or task bar. You have to do a little detective work to get to them.

I'm running WCG as I type this. I have 640 Meg phtsical ram memory, 640 Meg fixed swap file, with total virtual memory 2 GB with a 1.5 GHz Pentium 4. I started out on the old UD grid and came here when UD closed the project down. I switch from the old agent and have the latest BOINC running. It might take me 25 hours to do what the quad core folks do in 3 hours, but I'm making a contribution with what I have until I replace my system later this year.

With a little tweaking, your system should be running BOINC too.

Thank you everyone who offered suggestions and fixes for my problem. After reading the article supplied by Ageless, I removed 512 meg of memory, leaving 512 megs. This fix did the trick and I am happily crunching again!

Ray